Chip Maker Stocks Rally Across the Board
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Chip Maker Stocks Rally Across the Board

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 11, 20261 min
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  • Business & money

Plus: Oil prices rise after two sessions of losses. And AI bellwether CoreWeave’s stock soars nearly 25%. Pierre Bienaimé hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Here's your closing bell brief for Wednesday, November 11th. I'm Pierre Bien-Amé for The Wall Street Journal. Tech stocks rallied today after upbeat earnings from CoreWeave. The company leases data centers to tech giants like Microsoft, making it a bellwether for

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the AI trade. It beat Wall Street's revenue expectations and raised its guidance for 2026 sales. The NASDAQ led the gains, rising 1.6%. The S&P 500 was up 1.3% and the Dow grew 0.5%.

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Oil prices rose again. They had fallen from the past two sessions on signs that the Trump administration plans to take a restrained approach to Iran. Brent crude futures closed at nearly $93 a barrel.

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